Check out these cool animated paper models. Yes, they are made out of paper!
Order and build one yourself!
http://www.flying-pig.co.uk/
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The Lone Filmmaker
This guy is making a film on his own, by himself, with no help. He’s writer, director, camera, lighting, costumer, editor, etc. And you get to come along for the ride as he documents his success and failures.
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Incredible Painted Wall Animations
These are absolutely fantastic! I can not even imagine the time and patience that goes into something like this. I would like to see a video of this guy during the animation process.
That’s exactly what the Blender Foundation has done. Not only can you see the movie for free, you can download any of the elements that were used in the film. Even the software they used to create it.
Big Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo.
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Roadside Giants
I stumbled on this in the Waymarking site. There’s a category of Giant Fiberglass Statues a.k.a. Muffler Men. I noticed a lot of them looked alike and must have been produced by one company for sale. After a quick Google search I found my answer and an interesting story.
Steve: These characters — and many others — were made by a company called International Fiberglass, which I owned and ran during the mid 1960s until around 1974. They were sold as attention getters for retail stores.
Our main business was working with the large oil and tire companies and restaurant chains for nationwide programs. For example, we built a series of Phillips Petroleum cowboys, Texaco Big Friends, and US Rubber Miss Uniroyals. We also did ENCO and Humble tigers, and Sinclair Dinosaurs.
We had a variety of figures which we adapted from one mold — such as golfers, cowboys, spacemen, Indians, muffler men, etc. We also built a bunch of different animals such as horses, steers, cows, giant chickens, etc.
Origin of the Species on Roadside America
According to Mark Crispin Miller, a professor of media ecology at New York University, the original revelation of subliminal advertising effects was a hoax.
In 1957, an enterprising marketing researcher named James Vicary announced to a breathless world that he had conducted an experiment in a movie theater in Fort Lee, New Jersey during screenings of the William Holden picture, Picnic. Vicary claimed that what he had done was to flash subliminal inducements during the screening of the film telling people to drink Coca Cola or to eat popcorn. His claim was that those subliminal flashes had actually increased sales of those items at the concession stand in the theater by some 38 percent.
This announcement took the country by [LAUGHING] storm. People basically freaked out over it. The networks swore they would never engage in practices like this. The New York State Senate passed a law against this kind of thing. Aldous Huxley appeared on The Mike Wallace Show [LAUGHS] and referred to it as something far worse than anything he’d imagined in Brave New World. It was quite a to do.
And the irony is that it turned out that Vicary had made the whole thing up.
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Ascii Art
Here’s a site of some of that old ascii art. Pictures of celebrities created entirely from ascii characters. I remember in typing class in high school using old fashion typewriters to create ‘type art’ but not quite on the scale as these.
Update: link appears to have died, see an archived page here.
A favorite cartoon of my youth, I was surprised to discover that it originally aired in prime time for a single season.
“26 Jonny Quest episodes originally aired in primetime during the 1964-65 season.”
There have been a few resurrections of the series, but none have come close in quality to the original classic 26 episodes.
Fan site:
http://www.classicjq.com/
I own and highly recommend the DVD set.
Jonny Quest First Season
Don’t let “First Season” throw you, there was only one season.
Here’s a site that will take your 30 second video and turn it into a flip book!
